An allegory of Peace; Peace personified as a woman standing in a landscape holding the left hand of a winged genius
Anonymous|Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1520–50
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 4 3/8 in. (21.4 x 11.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.373
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Anonymous|Marcantonio Raimondi
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...